The woman who took the selfie, Hannah Udren, posted the photo on her Twitter account @han_horan.

In her tweet, she said, "So my plane just crashed ... I almost died."

WDSU anchor Scott Walker spoke with Udren, a future Tulane University student, Thursday night on the phone and asked her about the selfie seen around the world.

“I took a selfie because I knew my parents wouldn’t believe me and I had to prove it to them,” she said. “It was pretty scary. Everyone on the plane was screaming. People were yelling like, ‘Evacuate! We see fire!’ It was a pretty hectic moment but I was right near the exit. So I got out pretty quickly. So it wasn’t too bad.”

Udren said she is attending Tulane University in the fall and looking forward to moving to New Orleans.

Flight 1702 was scheduled to take off at 5:50 p.m. and arrive in Fort Lauderdale about three hours later, according to US Airways' website, though Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the incident took place around 6:25 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA...WHEN A TIRE POPPED ON A PLANE'S LANDING GEAR DURING TAKE OFF... SENDING THE NOSE INTO THE GROUND. ALL PASSENGERS GOT OFF SAFELY... AND ONE PASSENGER TOOK THE TIME TO TAKE A SELFIE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS... MOMENTS AFTER THE CRASH HANNAH UDREN... WHO WAS ON THE PLANE ... FIRST TWEETED A PHOTO OF THE PLANE WITH THE WORDS "SO MY PLANE JUST CRASHED..." AND THEN TWEETED THIS PICTURE SAYING "SO YUP." I SPOKE WITH HANNAH THURSDAY NIGHT AND ASKED HER ABOUT THE SELFIE SEEN AROUND THE WORLD. "...IT WASN'T TOO BAD." HANNAH SAYS SHE WILL BE ATTENDING TULANE UNIVERSITY THIS FALL. FALL.